Packless self-sealing plug cock valve



April 25, 1950- J. F. ODONNELL 2,505,138

PACKLESS SELF-SEALING PLUG COCK VALVE Filed March 26, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Inventor April 25, 1950 J. F. ODONNELL 2,505,138

PACKLESS SELF-SEALING PLUG COCK VALVE Filed March 26, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor I Jame: Ofionbefl By W m Patented Apr. 25, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PACKLESS SELF-SEALING PLUG COCK VALVE James F. ODonnell, Disputanta, Va. Application March 26, 1945, Serial No. 584,787

meeting faces of the tapered plug cock and thevalve body with grease, which is supplied first through a central feed passage in the tapered plug, and conducted by grooves formed in the tapered face of the valve housing or body, and so arranged that the grease is caused to accumulate above and below the tapered valve cock, and is effectively prevented from entering the pressure or flow line, which the valve controls.

Another object of the invention is to provide a valve construction, which can be economically produced and easily assembled, and which will include a spring pressed plate arranged to maintain the tapered valve cock pressure seated.

With the above and other objects in view the invention relates to certain new and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, clearly described in the following specification, and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, taken on an irregular line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and showing one half of the valve in elevation. 1

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the valve housing or body, the tapered valve cock and the spring seating means being removed. 1

Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal sectional view, taken on line 54 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view, through the tapered valve cock, showing the grease passage ad grooves thereof.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the practical construction of my improved valve cock, 5 designates the valve housing or casing, also called the body, which is formed with a passage 6 in the integral nipple I, and another and aligned passage 8 in the nipple 9. Each nipple is formed with the usual integral coupling flange I0.

The valve housing or casing 5 is also formed with a conical or tapered seat II, the axis of which is disposed at right angles to the axis of the passages 6 and 8. The lower end of the valve casing is provided with an external coupling flange I2, and the wall of the casing in which the taperecl seat II is formed, is enlarged at I3 to provide for a circular grease passage which communicates with the space I4 below the tapered 2 valve cock I5, which is disposed in the casing with its outer surface in contacting engagement with the tapered seat I I.

The tapered valve cock I5 is constructed with an integral stem I6, which is formed with intermediate screw threads I'!, in a reduced section of the stem. This stem is cylindrical and has a bearing in the upper end wall I8 of the valve casing. The upper end of the tapered valve cock is normally spaced below the upper end wall I8 of the valve casing, to provide a grease pocket I9, and the wall of the casing is enlarged so that this grease pocket will partly enclose the upper end of the tapered valve cock.

The tapered valve cock is formed with a grease loading passage 20, which extends axially through the stem of the cock and communicates with the ransverse passage 2 I, formed in the tapered valve cock above the flow passage 22 thereof. The valve cock is also formed with relatively short grease passages 23 and 24 on opposite sides thereof, which do not communicate through the body of the cock with the passage 2I or the loading passage 20. The short grease passages 23 and 24 are in the form of narrow grooves, and extend upwardly from the larger lower end of the cook a short distance and do not communicate with the transverse flow passage 22 of the valve cock.

The casing seat II is formed with a circular grease passage or groove 25, which is disposed in the same plane as the transverse passage 2| of the valve cock. From this grease passage or groove 25 passages 26 and El are formed, on each side of the seat, which are spaced apart from each other a distance somewhat in excess of the width of the flow passage 22 through the valve cock, and which are disposed in approximately parallel relation to the sides of this opening 01 flow passage. The lower ends of the grease passages or grooves 26 and 21 are connected by the grease passages or grooves 28 and 29, which are located in the same plane as the upper ends of the short grease passages or grooves 23 and 24. The lateral grease passages or grooves 28 and 29 establish communication between the longitudinal passages or grooves 26 on one side of the seat I I, and the longitudinal passages or grooves 2'! on the other side of the seat II, but the passages or grooves 28 and 29 do not directly communicate with each other at the lower end of the valve seat, but, of course have communication with the upper grease passage or groove 25, which extends entirely around the upper portion or the valve seat.

A'plate is placed over the valve stem I6,

and is equipped with a plurality of spacing bolts 3|, the inner ends of which are engaged with the end wall l8 of the valve casing, and each bolt is equipped with a nut 32. A coil spring 33 is placed between the plate 30 and the upper side of the end wall I8, and nuts 34 and 35 are threaded on the valve stem it against the washer 36, above theplatetfll The spring exerts upward pressure on the valve stem to hold the valve :cock seated under pressure in the valve casing.

The upper end of the axial grease passage 2i! is closed by a screw plug 31, which has considerable length, so that it Will'serve as adiew plunger to advance grease through the passage 'it, and thence through the entire series of communicating passages.

The valve seat H is alsorelieved-between the longitudinal grease passages or grooves 25 and 21, so as to allow for .the accumulation "or grease on each side of the valve cock, but under conditions which prevent the grease from entering theflow lineyea-ch of these clearances providing grease pockets 33, as indicated inFigs. 3 and 4,

- which are also never in communication with the 'fpassages ZS'an'd 22, or the upper circular passage 25, or the lower partly circular passages 23 and 29.

When the valve'cock is turned the grease is taken up by the surface of the valve cock and thinly distributed overthe area of the valve be- "-tween the short bottom vertical grease grooves or passages 23 and-24,- and the lateral passages.

The grease flows'under pressure from the intake passage 29 tothe lateral passage 2!, emerging on opposite sides' or the taperedvalve cock, and enters the uppercircular groove 25 of the valve seat I I. The grease then flows downwardly through the-grooves 25 and 2? to the grooves '28 and 29. 'When the short grooves 23 and 24 of the valve'cock are moved into registration with the horizontal grooves 28 and 29 of the valve seat I I, grease will flow through the valve grooves 23 and 24 intothe chamber it, below the valve cock. can also fill the shallow pockets-'38 formed be- "tween the rooves 26 and 21, but never in direct When thegre'ase enters this chamber it communication with them. Grease enters the chamber l9 above the valve cock by flow between the upper end of the valve cock and the valve seat. The greaseis retained in the chamber it; be-

- low the valve cock by means of the protecting plate '40, which is coupled by the bolts 4i tothe "*basefiangd I2 of the valve casing or body 5. By removing "his plate and disconnecting the nuts and 'boltsof the upper end of the valve stem, the

' valve may be removed through the lower end of the valve casing.

Itis understood that variouschanges in the "details of construction, their combination and arrangement may be resorted to, within the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention I claim as new: A valve comprising a substantially tubular valve body of substantially frustro-conical form, a wall closing the smaller end of said body having an opening therein which aligns with the longitudinal axis of the body, said body having 1 a pair of; aligned diametrically opposed flow paslO sages openin into the interior thereof, the body being provided on its inner side adjacent oppo- "site ends with annular recesses and with diainetrically'oppo'sed recesses extending longitudinally inwardly from the annular recess at its larger end, said longitudinal recesses lying between the flow passages, said body also having an annular groove between the flow passages and the recess adjacent the smaller end thereof and arcuate grooves between the flow passages and the larger end thereof and said body also having r longitudinal grooves establishing communication betweenopposite ends or the arcuate groovesand the annular groove, a frusto conical turnin plug mountedto rotate in said body, said turning plug having a transversely extending flow passage which is adapted to align with the flow passages in the body when the plug is in one position, a stem on and extending axially .from the smaller end of said turning plug, said turning plug having a bore extending transversely therethrough adjacent the stem, said here .lying parallel withthe flow passage and communi-cating at opposite ends with the annular groove in the valve body, said stem having an axial bore extending thel'einto which communicates with the transverse bore in. the turning plug and the plug having diametrically opposed grooves lyingalong a plane with the axis of the transverse bore and. extending from the plane of the arcuate grooves in thevalve body through theadjacent end ofthe turning plug.

JAMES F. ODONNELL.

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